SOUTH KOREA: Quick to Wrath

Isolated from his people by barbed wire,
prowling tanks and stern-faced troops, proud old Syngman Rhee sat in
his presidential palace early last week stubbornly clinging to power.
He had ordered ailing Vice President-elect Lee Ki Poong to "apologize
to the nation.'' But to the swelling demand for his own resignation.
Rhee turned a deaf ear. "This time of trouble." he insisted,
"strengthens my determination to serve the nation."

Rhee might still be there if it had not been for one man: General Song
Yo Chan (see box), South Korea's hard-driving army chief...